When Google makes a move in the real estate space, everyone watches for clues that might signal the sleeping giant is hungry for a bigger piece of the real estate pie.
Google Inc. may crush all other Internet search portals, yet when it comes to real estate listings, its often less of a destination than a [...]

When looking at the general health of the housing market, there are two important numbers to consider. First, what are homes selling for – are prices going up or going down? Second, what is the sheer number of homes being sold? In this week’s column, we’ll look at the latter. If the total number of [...]

Lance Patterson, who helped obtain financing for Barry Real Estate Companies Inc.’s biggest projects in the past few years, is leaving the developer.
Patterson, Barry Real Estate’s president and chief operating officer, will depart amid a profound slowdown in the real estate deals that marked much of his tenure with the company. However, he will remain [...]

Offices and warehouses empty out, even as rents decrease, in L.A., Riverside, Orange and San Bernardino counties. A turnaround might be years away.
The lousy economy continues to quash the commercial real estate market, driving down rents and pushing out tenants.
Nearly a third of office space is flat-out empty in parts of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside [...]

Have you noticed that the more Decembers you live through, the less attractive the material side of this month becomes? Many Canadians are discovering that this disillusionment with shopping and accumulating “stuff” is spreading into other areas of their lives, too. The current emphasis on “green” encourages this simplifying approach to life.
As Canada’s 9.8 [...]

Title insurance in Texas is regulated by the Texas Title Insurance Act. It provides buyers of real property and their lenders with a contract of indemnification for loss or damage incurred as a result of defects in the title to the real property being purchased.
Hence, title insurance does not guarantee the state of title, but [...]

Maybe all the criticism and jokes about Senator Chris Dodd being AWOL from his housing and mortgage legislative duties on Capitol Hill — while he runs for President at the back of the pack — are financially getting his attention.
After months of delay, the chairman of the Senate banking committee last week unveiled his [...]